Strong interest for smart beta strategies among Taiwanese investors Rick Chau is new Head of Asia-Pacific based in Hong Kong ZURICH, 23-Nov-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Boerse Group’s index business, and a leading global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, is expanding its footprint in the Asia-Pacific

FRANKFURT, 23-Nov-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Eurex Clearing’s offer to accelerate the development of a liquid, EU based alternative for the clearing of interest rate swaps gains broad market support. Around 20 market participants from the US, the United Kingdom and Continental Europe already decided to participate in Eurex Clearing’s partnership program. The early

FRANKFURT, 23-Nov-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Introduction of fully-electronic trading revolutionised exchange trading / Launched on 28 November 1997 with 109 equities Xetra trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange is 20 years old; trading was launched at 8.30 a.m. on “X-day”, 28 November 1997. This was the first time that shares in Germany were

Jon Briggs (Broadcast journalist and the original UK voice of Siri) with Melanie Dawson (Head of BIM at GRAHAM Construction and founder member and Chair of NI BIM Regions) at Digital Construction Live Hillsborough, England, 22-Nov-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Event focuses on the world of building information modelling (BIM) and new digital technologies in

PARIS, 22-Nov-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — The French Banking Federation (FBF) welcomes the selection of Paris as the new location of the European Banking Authority. It is a clear nod to the attractiveness of the financial centre of Paris. It is also a tribute to a remarkable campaign led by public authorities that fully understood

ZURICH, 22-Nov-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — As of 01 January 2018, Jerome Jean Haegeli will become Swiss Re’s Group Chief Economist at the Swiss Re Institute. Current Group Chief Economist Kurt Karl will retire at the end of December 2017 after six years in the role and 17 years with Swiss Re. In his new

Major natural catastrophe events in 2017 and current low prices are expected to push pricing in non-life insurance and reinsurance higher Cyclical upswing in global economy set to continue in 2018 and 2019, supporting insurance premium volume growth Global non-life premiums are forecast to grow by at least 3% annually in real terms

STOCKHOLM, 22-Nov-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Defence and security company Saab has been awarded a contract to deliver a Mass Field Feeding Capability to the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). The contract will supply the SANDF with mobile containerised kitchens systems which consists of 24 x 50-man systems and 11 x 200-man systems. “Saab

PARIS, 22-Nov-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Launched into orbit on 13 October, the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite has delivered its first images of air pollution. To mark this important milestone, ESA, the European Commission and the German Aerospace Centre DLR invite media representatives to an exclusive viewing of these tantalising first results, which surpass expectations. The

Image: The band structure of a topological insulator measured using photoemission. The dark areas indicate which energies [on the y-axis] go together with which (here inverse) wavelengths [on the x-axis] for the electron waves in the solid. After 20 seconds exposure to the UV light involved in doing a photoemission experiment (right-hand image)